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\"alyx<\/a><\/p>\n

After a certain age your kids won’t wake up in the middle of the night crying. Or at least it won’t happen every<\/strong> night.
\nI had forgotten what it’s like to hear your baby crying in the middle of the night, so when Alyx was crying in her room at 4:30 in the morning I was disoriented.<\/p>\n

I stumbled over Polly Pocket and jeans to get to her.
\n“Come on, come get in bed with me.” I took her hot little hand and we climbed into my bed.
\nShe told me that she had a nightmare that she was cleaning her room and Kara wasn’t helping. Then she said everyone left her.<\/p>\n

Nightmares break my heart because I have had nightmares haunt me my whole life. In the time I have been with Shaun the nightmares have lessened to once a month instead the regular 2 a night.<\/p>\n

She was boiling hot. I didn’t want to get up and leave her to get her a wash cloth, I didn’t want to leave her because I had just been telling her that I would never, ever leave her.<\/p>\n

Shaun in his half asleep zombie state, got up. I must have been talking too loudly and he was going to get up and do that thing he does when he wakes up in the middle of the night. I don’t know what it is…he walks down the hall, back up again, fiddles with the alarm clock and then gets back into bed.<\/p>\n

He went and got her a cool paper towel to put on her neck…and then climbed right back into bed and fell asleep. You didn’t know he was a mind reader did you?<\/p>\n

She woke up this morning still really hot and I told her. “Honey, you’re missing your last day of school.” She’s not too happy about it. She would rather be saying her good-byes.<\/p>\n

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After a certain age your kids won’t wake up in the middle of the night crying. Or at least it won’t happen every night. I had forgotten what it’s like to hear your baby crying in the middle of the night, so when Alyx was crying in her room at 4:30 in the morning I was disoriented. I stumbled over Polly Pocket and jeans to get to her. “Come on, come get in bed with me.” I took her hot little hand and we climbed into my bed. She told me that she had a nightmare that she was cleaning her room and Kara wasn’t helping. Then she said everyone left her. Nightmares break my heart because I have had nightmares haunt me my whole life. In the time I have been with Shaun the nightmares have lessened to once a month instead the regular 2 a night. She was boiling hot. I didn’t want to get up and leave her to get her a wash cloth, I didn’t want to leave her because I had just been telling her that I would never, ever leave her. Shaun in his half asleep zombie state, got up. I must have been talking too loudly and he was going to get up and do that thing he does when he wakes up in the middle of the night. I don’t know what it is…he walks down the hall, back up again, fiddles with the alarm clock and then gets back into bed. He went and got her a cool paper towel to put on her neck…and then climbed right back into bed and fell asleep. You didn’t know he was a mind reader did you? She woke up this morning still really hot and I told her. “Honey, you’re missing your last day of school.” She’s not too happy about it. She would rather be saying her good-byes. ***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}